Doesn't ThunderBolt open possibility of using MacBook as video in? HDMI in?

Thunderbolt has higher bandwidth than all mediums thus far,
so with it's introduction, isn't it possible that we could do hdmi----> thunderbolt and then do things like play xbox on our macbook screens?
the bandwidth is there, isn't it?

ThunderBolt is a direct connection to the logicboard's PCI Express slot... which is basically the same port that a video card would connect to on a PC. Even though desktop video cards and many notebooks have HDMI connectors, they are not simply connectors that work both ways. The throughput is only part of the equation. The video card outputs through the HDMI connector. There is no circuitry within the video card to accept, process, and display an incoming video signal. However, there are currently USB devices that will accept video input ( http://www.elgato.com/ ). If video can be streamed over relatively slow USB 2.0 speeds, there is no reason a company can't come out with a ThunderBolt device to do the same thing. So, it is "possible"... but whether or not anyone actually does it remains to be seen. ThunderBolt has a lot of potential. Fortunately with Apple including the technology in all of their new machines, they have created a market for devices that take advantage of it. I expect we'll be seeing any number of high speed video capture devices in the next few years.

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